Crystal was trying her best to mimic Junjie's movements she got better at… whatever exercise junjie does in the early mornings but she wasn't the best at it, she started to join Junjie in the mornings by getting up early and doing stretches and stuff, it started about last week, when she started having nightmares.

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Crystal looked down, and at her feet was her sister's dead body, she tried to scream but nothing came out, a loud laugh filled the surrounding area. "Well well, what have we here?" A woman that looked similar to Crystal walked out of the shadows, she looked almost exactly like her, only her blonde hair was dull and faded to a darker color, her blue eyes were dull and dead. The hair that covered her right half of her face had a black liquid oozing out from underneath, her hair was longer, there were purple streaks here and there, her hair was pulled back in a bun, and there was a wither rose in her hair. "Hello." She said in a sinister voice. "W-Who are you?" Crystal asked, the woman in front of her laughed. "I'm you Crystal. I am who you were meant to be." She said, Crystal took a step back, the dark version of her suddenly had a dark smile across her face, her normal eye turned black with a glowing purple iris, and a black liquid came out of her eye. She chuckled darkly. She pulled out a knife and ran at Crystal.

"No!" Crystal shot up, she was sweaty. "Crystal? Are you alright?" She heard Junjie ask. "Y-Yeah… just-just a nightmare." She said, she looked up and blushed, she instantly looked down. "Sorry. Didn't think you were… shirtless." She mumbled the last part. Slightly blushing more. "It is alright, I should have given you an early warning." He said, blushing slightly. He grabbed his shirt and put it on. "Okay, I have a shirt on." He said, Crystal looked up, Junjie was putting on his wrist blasters and such. "Would you like to join me for training?" He asked, Crystal nodded. "Sure…"

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Crystal carefully mimicked Junjie's movements, she closed her eyes for a minute and she was still doing relatively well. Then she heard footsteps and she heard Junjie speak. "Couldn't sleep either Eli?" Crystal opened her eyes. "No, uh the TV, it was a little loud." Eli said. "I dreamt of fire and destruction. The caverns in chaos under the shadow of the goon, and a monstrous claw that-" Junjie said, Crystal copied his movements and took a breath. "A claw? I had the same dream." Eli said, Crystal opened an eye. "I fear it was more of a premonition than a dream." Junjie said, Crystal blushed a little but forced it down. Junjie turned towards the slugs and Crystal, he said something Crystal didn't understand, but she bowed her head, and stood normally. Eli yawned. "Well, whatever it was, I'm not going back to sleep with my head full of goon, and the best way to clear my mind is, an early morning duel." Crystal smiled, and they all went outside. "Up for some fun?" Eli asked. "I am ready to improve my skills, as always." He said, putting his fist in his handheld out in front of him, Eli mimicked him. Junjie got in stance, and said some words Crystal still couldn't understand, and his slugs got into a stance. Junjie threw the shells into the air, his slugs jumped up and into them. Two landed in his wrist blasters, he caught two, and put them on the strap belt thing, and he caught the one Juju was in. "Excellent, shall we commence?" He asked, Eli looked down at his slugs which were asleep. "In a minute." Eli clapped his hands. "Rise and shine guys" Burpy jumped down from Eli's shoulder, and yelled in Banger's face which made him wake up. Jewlz shocked the slug that threw blue bombs. Eli chuckled. "Good one Jewlz." Junjie gave Eli a weird look. Eli chuckled nervously. "Okay tighten up guys." He said, copying Junjie a little. He loaded Banger into his blaster. And fired at junjie, and Junjie fired his frostcrawler and it froze banger so he was trapped in an icecube, Junjie started to use slugfu and it blew ice at Eli, it made a bit on an ice slide and Eli was somehow riding the slug then it de-transformed and Eli went down the slide upside down. Junjie walked forward and Eli reached the bottom of the slide. "Hey." He said. "Thank you for an invigorating duel." He said, Crystal stood up, and stretched. "So you finally seem better after being under the Goons' control." Eli smiled, Junjie helped nim up. "Yes. And I am eager to use all of my abilities to repay you from freeing me from the goons captivity." He said, Crystal smiled and walked up to Junjie. She smiled at him, trying not to blush, Eli gave her a smirk he was about to say something, but Crystal glared at him. "I still don't get how you control your slugs with that. Slugfu stuff." Eli said. Instead of what he was originally going to say. "Well, I have done nothing but practice since I was a child." A slug being fired was heard. "Slug fire, that was a ramstone." Junjie said. "Aw, it's cool, follow me." Eli said, they walked for a bit. "You can tell what slugs ben slung by the sound? Wow." Eli said, Crystal walked next to Junjie. "Are you going to make a comment on my ability, Crystal?"Jinjie asked, Crystal shook her head. "No, not really…" She said, she grabbed her hair tie and pulled her hair back into a low ponytail, once they got there Kord and Pronto where racing their slugs. "What, is.. This?" Junjie asked, proto formula one racing." Kord said. "I, do not understand." Junjie said. "It's awesome, the slugs wear helmets that receive signals transmitted from the blasters." Pronto's flatulorhinkus got in front of Kord's slug, and… farted. And Pronto beat Kord. "Eat my stank!" Pronto shouted. "Forgive me, I understand, what you where doing, what I do not understand is, why?" He said. "Why what?" Eli asked. "Why one would play a game for, fun. Would this not take away time for training?" He asked, Crystal shrugged and made a so-so sign. "Uh, wait. You've never played a game? Even as a kid?" Trixie asked. "I was born to be my caverns greatest protector. And it is an honor with many benefits. One being, that I do not need modified blasters and technology to control my slugs." He said he loaded his tazerling into his blaster and shot it. Now he was racing Pronto and Kord, Pronto and Kord looked at each other and gained up on Junjie, they tried to ram their slugs into Junjie's slug but Junjie used slugfu to make his slug jump, so the two slugs rammed into each other, Anne walked over and yawned. Lucy was watching the race. "Hey Crystal." She said, "That is cheating!" Pronto said, Junjie's tazerling hopped onto Junjie's hand. "Forgive me Pronto, allow me to undertake the maintenance of your mecha beast for the next week." He offered. "No, no, no, no, I insist, eh make it two weeks." Suddenly Pronto's flatulorhinkus or Stinky, started twitching, and turned into a ghoul. The slug jumped, and tried to bite Pronto. Lucy grabbed the slug, but it bit her hand. "Ouch!" She let go and held her hand, it was bleeding. Suddenly all the air slugs turned ghoul. "Benny!" Anne yelled, her hoverbug went, ghoul, Crystal only had one slug, and that was amethyst. Crystal looked at Junjie. "Cure 'em Doc!" Eli said, he fired Doc and the slugs were cured for a moment. Then changed back to ghouls. "It didn't work!" Trixie yelled, Lucy's Tormato slug was ghouled but it still didn't attack her, somehow. "Wait, if a bunch of the slugs out here turned ghoul-" Lucy cut Eli off. "Then the same is happening to the slugs inside!" She ran to the house, everyone followed. There were ghouls everywhere. It was utter chaos. "All the Slyren, tormatos, and hoverbugs. This is bad, this is real bad." Eli loaded Doc into his blaster, he cured all the slugs for a moment. "It's still not working. What's going on!" Eli shouted. "Oh, no. Look!" Trixie ran to her computer, and it showed reports of ghouls all over Windfarm cavern. ""Windfarm Cavern is overrun." Eli said. "That place practically runs on hoverbugs and tormatos." Trixie said, earning a glare from Lucy. 'Someone's jealous.' Crystal thought. "That's as good a place as any to start figuring this out. Let's saddle up!" Eli said, everyone went to the shed. Junjie got on his mecha and Crystal got on behind Junjie, she started riding with Junjie because Trixie decided she didn't wanna share her mecha. Junjie started up his mecha, so did everyone else, they started to ride out. "Well, at least the day can't get any crazier." Kord said they all stopped their mechas when the Shadow Clan appeared. "You just, had to say it, Kord." Crystal said. "You need to come with us, now, we have a village near Sanadu Basin." The Chief said. "Uh, I didn't quite catch that." Pronto said. "He said we need to go, now. To a Shadow Clan village near Sanadu Basin." Junjie said. "You speak Shadow Clan? Ugh, of course you speak Shadow Clan." Trixie,'s mecha moved forward a bit. "Sanadu Basin? It'll take us days to get there on mecha." She said. "We can't go." Eli said. "All of our air slugs have been ghouled" Lucy cut in. holding her hand, Doc jumped out of Eli's backpack, and healed Lucy's hand, she smiled and pet the slug, Doc smiled and hopped back into Eli's backpack. "And we're heading to Windfarm so-" Eli tried explaining. "No, once you hear the message. I think you will change your mind." Chief said. "Message? What message?" Eli asked. "The message, from your father." Chief said, Eli gasped. "If the gliff glows, call the son. So said Will Shane." Chief said. "What? My father said that?" Eli asked. "We have little time. You must come with us now." Chief almost shouted. "Let's go Shane gang. Junjie, you in?" Eli asked "It would be my honor, to accompany you." He said Eli turned to the Shadow Clan chief. "So uh, how do we get there?" He asked. Chief held up an orb and tossed it in the air, and everyone started floating. "This will hurt a bit" Chief said. "What did he say?" Trixie asked. "He said-" Eli was cut off by Junjie. "This, is going, to hurt." He said. "Fuck." Crystal murmured, they were pulled into the portal, Crystal tried as best she could to stay close to Junjie, then they were all falling out of the portal, Crystal landed on Junjie. "I don't feel very good." She got off Junjie, and turned away from everyone, and puked, but not as much as Pronto. Eli turned to Crystal and Junjie. "You guys okay?" He asked, Crystal gave him a glare. "Just peachy." She said sarcastically. "I will be in a moment." Junjie said as he got up. "No amount of training can prepare one for that, and, forgive my earlier shrieking." He turned to Crystal, who was still holding her stomach, he held out his hand, and helped Crystal stand, she almost fell but Junji caught her. "Give me a second." She said, she shook her head. "Good god, I'm dizzy." She said she closed her eyes and held her head for a moment, she shook her head again and opened her eyes. "I think I'm good now." She said. "We need to show you something." Chief said. "Slugs are turning into ghouls all through the caverns, so? What about my father's message?" Eli asked Chief held out a bandango slug, and set it on the ground, the slug closed its eyes, and the markings on the ground glowed. Everyone took a step back, something came up through the ground and opened, a pillar came out of it. All the Shadow Clan members held up bandangos, and the top of the structure started to glow, Crystal sheltered her eyes from the light, and an Enigmo slug appeared, it fell on its face and got up. "A slug? That's it!?" Pronto said, Eli crouched down. "It's an Enigmo slug." He said. "No shit Sherlock." Crystal mumbled, which earned her a light smack on the shoulder by Junjie, Crystal crossed her arms and stuck her tongue out at him, Junjie rolled his eyes, Crystal and Junjie turned their attention back to what was happening. The Enigmo slugs fell and the one that came out of the pillar was picked up by Chief. "Enigmo slugs mess up your vision and make you see stuff." Trixie said, Lucy glared at her. "So why would my dad leave one for us?" Eli asked Chief pointed. "Can you stand over there." He said. "Over there? Okay." He walked to where Chief had pointed. "Alright now what?" Eli asked, Chief got ready to launch thee Enigmo. "Oh, floppers." Chief slugged Eli and a white dome surrounded them. "We will leave you to the message, and trust that it holds answers to our problems, now we must go, and do what we can to attend to the ghouls, that plague Slugterra. But first, I must speak with Crystal." He said, Eli and Junjie turned to Crystal. "Why do you wanna talk to me?" She asked. "Since when do you speak Shadow Clan?" Eli asked, Crystal shrugged. "I dunno, I figured out I could when they found me after what happened when I first met, 'Junjie'." She said, Junjie looked to the side. Chief held his hand out to Crystal, she took it and they left the dome. "So uh, what was that about?" Kord asked Eli shrugged. "Don't know, but he wanted to talk to Crystal." Eli said. "We should focus on the message for now, we can inform Crystal when she gets back. We have bigger concerns." Junjie said, Eli nodded.

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Crystal looked up at Chief. "So you wanted to talk about something?" She asked, Chief nodded. "Yes, I have an explanation on why your goeshard, is changing." He said, Amethyst jumped onto Crystal's shoulder. "Well what's happening to her?" She asked. "I believe she is turning into an entire new type of slug." He said, Crystal and Amethyst looked at each other. "Okay, so… is that it? You could've-" "No, there is something else I must tell you." He said, he held out his hand, and amethyst jumped onto it. "Your connection to your slug is stronger than any connection I have seen, I fear that if she is corrupted, something will not only happen to her, but to you as well." He said, Crystal gave him a confused look. "I thought you didn't care about people." Crystal said, the crystals on the geoshard, turned completely purple, and there was amethyst growing out the front, of the slugs head, almost like a crown of sorts, one faced up, two to the sides. Chief looked at the slug in amazement. "It appears, with all of the extra slug energy, her transformation has completed." He said. "Alright, well, can you please tell me why you're suddenly concerned about me getting 'ghouled' you don't normally care for humans." Crystal said, Amethyst jumped from Chief's hand, and onto Crystal's shoulder. "You are a member of the Grey family. The eldest daughter." He said, Crystal slowly nodded. "Okay, and?" She asked. "Your ancestors made the legend that, anyone in the grey bloodline had the ability to make a new type of slug." He said, Crystal's eyes widened. "Wait wouldn't that mean, Lucy could do-" "No, the legend left out one part, only the eldest son or daughter, had the ability. But the price is they must fight themselves, and they're connection to their slug will make it much more difficult if the slug is corrupted, if they can't fight it off, it slowly kills them, and their slug as well." He said, Crystal knew what he was talking about now. "I know what you're talking about now. I've already met the corrupted version of me, she gives me constant nightmares." Crystal said, Chief nodded. "Do not succumb or you will seal her fate, and yours." Chief said, Crystal nodded. "I won't. I promise." She said, Chief nodded and suddenly she was teleported.

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Crystal was suddenly next to Junjie. "Hey guys." She said they all jumped, even Junjie. "When did you get back?" Eli asked. "Just now, Chief teleported me." She said Eli gave her a confused look. "Chief?" He asked Crystal shrugged. "The Shadow Clan leader, aka the one who talked to me." She said, "What did he need to talk about?" Eli asked Crystal crossed her arms. "I'm not ready to tell." Crystal said. 'To tell you at least, I might tell Junjie.' Crystal thought. "Eli, can you fill me in." She asked. "We need to go to Undertow Cavern so we can try to cure the water elemental." Eli said Crystal nodded. "Well, there is one thing I'd like to tell you." Crystal said. "What is it?" Lucy asked, the whole gang had their attention on Crystal, Amethyst hopped on her shoulder. "Chief said Amethyst was changing into a new type of slug, and all the extra slug energy helped to complete the process." She said, "Wait, so this is Amethyst." Eli said, Crystal nodded. "Yeah." She said, "What is the name of this new species of slug?" Junjie asked, Crystal thought for a moment. "I've never thought of it before… How about… Gemshard." She said Amethyst, nodded in agreement. "Alright now that that's taken care of we need to get to Undertow Cavern." She said, everyone got on their mechas, Crystal, once again, got on the back of Junjie's mecha, and rode with him.

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"What has happened to this place?" Pronto asked, "Corrupting the elementals is wreaking havoc on the caverns." Crystal said, suddenly ghouls were fired at them. "Dark Bane!" Lucy said, beating Trixie to speaking, she smirked. "Oh floppers." Pronto said, Eli hopped off his mecha. "This is not good, what are these guys doing here?" He said. The goon hopped onto his new host's shoulder. "They are her to obey my commands." He said. "The Goon?" Pronto and Kord said. "The Goon's found a mew host slinger." Eli said. "And He's working with the Dark Bane?" Kord said, The Goon started laughing. Lucy growled, and balled her hands into fists, she loaded her ghouled Tormato into her blaster. Crystal put her hand on her sister's shoulder, and shook her head. "But he threw you. Off. A cliff." She said, teeth clenched. "Lulu, you'll get your chance." She said, Lucy sighed and nodded. They turned their attention back to what was happening. "The Goon's gotta be the one who took the elementals." Trixie said. "I do not know what those monsters are, but you I know all too well." Junjie said. "And I know you better little protector. I've lived inside your mind." The Goon said. Junjie loaded Jujuinto his wrist blaster. "And for that you will pay! Vengeance Juju!" He said, firing his blaster. "Yeah, bake 'em Burpy!" Eli said, firing his blaster. The Goon loaded his blaster and fired a ghouled tormato, and it launched burpy and Juju back, and they almost hit the ground, but Crystal caught them. "You fools are too late, we've ghouled the Air elemental, as well as the water, when my associate returns with it. We will acquire the remaining three." He said, Pronto started counting with his fingers. "Okay nobody told me there was going to be math." He complained, The Goon fired a ghouled Jellyish slug, and Trixie fired Banger. "Eli we'll try, and retrieve the Air elemental-" "You need to find and recover the water." Crystal said, jumping and dodging a ghouled Hop Rock. "Only one problem, the map says the elemental's on that island, and there's a lot of Dark Bane between the sea, and us." Eli said. "We can handle these guys Eli. Go!" She said, firing a slug. Eli turned to Kord. "Kord, give me an exit to the shoreline." He said, Kord fired Digger and there was a tunnel, Lucy stepped forward. "I'm coming with you." She said, Eli shook his head. "Lucy you'd be putting yourself into more danger than you are by being here." Eli said, Lucy glared and jumped down into the tunnel. "Eli." Crystal said, Eli turned to her. "I thought you'd know by now. Lucy doesn't take 'no' for an answer." She said, Eli sighed. "That's what I was afraid of." He mumbled jumping down. "Up to us to hold the fort." Trixie said. "Hold the fort? Bah, Pronto will deliver the Goon, on a silver platter with a cave apple in his mouth, maw." Then he was launched into the air by a ghoul. "After a short recess, of course." The fight continued. "Ugh, I'm out. Junjie toss me a Hop Rock." Kord said, Junjie tossed Kord the Hop Rock. Kord loaded it in his blaster and fired, but the Goon jumped and dodged. 'Hey! That's my move!' Crystal internally screamed. "What? That was a piece of cake shot. The goon was lined up." Kord said. "You did not guide the slug, with proper use of slugfu." Junjie said. "Does it look like I know slugfu!?" Kord shouted. "Your little tricks didn't help you save your caverns Junjie, and they won't help you here, and you Eli I'll crush your caverns too. After I twist your precious elementals to my will. You know this is true. You've seen it! Wait, where is Eli?" The Goon asked, the fight continued for another hour. "Eli's been gone too long. I don't like it." Trixie said, Pronto pulled out a pair of goggles, and looked through them. "I am guessing that, that cave in has something to do with it." He said Kord ran over to them. "We've gotta get over there and help him." He said, Junjie rushed over. "Once we deal with that." He said. "Blakk." Crystal said, accidentally no one told her about Blakk in the first place. But everyone was so absorbed in what was going on that they didn't notice. "Doctor Blakk!?" Kord said. "And he appears to have been, working out." Pronto said. "Wait. Blakk and the Goon? Together?" Trixie questioned. "Do you have the elemental?" The Goon asked, Blakk handed him the ghoul. "Excellent, and the Shane? I can sense he's still alive! Why didn't you finish him!?" He said. "After all he's done to me. I want to watch him suffer. Ending him now would be too merciful." Blakk replied. "You're a fool. You should've ended this when you had the chance. Quick, to the next elemental." He said, they left the beach. Crystal saw Junjie sneaking away and she followed him. Once they caught up, Junjie fired an arachnet slug, and pulled the Goon back. The Goon landed on his back, he jumped up. Junjie pointed at him. "I can not allow you to leave here with that slug." Junjie said. The Goon growled, and the arachnet hid behind Junjie. "Listen to me, you are not my enemy. The Goon controls your mind, as he once controlled mine. Fight him!" Junjie said Crystal was slowly coming up behind Junjie so he wouldn't notice her. "He cannot hear you Eastern Champion. But I can, I used to think that I'd never find a host as good as you. But this one is actually better. After all, what kind of slinger can't even save his home cavern." He said, Crystal glared and backed up. The Goon fired at Junjie, he dodged, and was about to fire, but Crystal shot her slug and there was now a wall of amethyst. "Crystal?" Junjie asked, Crystal came out of hiding. He glared. "Why did you not let me take the shot?" He said. "Your emotions were getting the better of you. I had to do something! Plus you can fight him later, this is most likely not the last we'll see of him." Crystal said, she bent down, and picked up Amethyst. "Do you wanna know what Chief told me? Other than that Amethyst is a new slug type." She said, Junjie sighed. "What is it?" He asked. "Well Chief said that there was a legend about my ancestors. That they had the ability to create new types of slugs. But only the oldest sons or daughters. But there was a downside." She said, Junjie seemed interested now. "What's the downside?" He asked, Crystal and Amethyst looked at each other for a moment. "If Amethyst gets ghouled, I'll basically have to fight- well, myself technically- anyways, if I don't fight her off, or get rid of her. I won't… be here anymore… I'd be replaced, with a pure corrupt version of myself, and it would slowly kill me and… due to my bond with Amethyst. It would slowly kill her as well." Crystal said, Junjie looked at her with a surprised look on his face. "Yeah, it's a lot to process." She said, Junjie was still. Crystal turned to Amethyst. "I think I broke him." She said, her slug laughed, Crystal chuckled and patted her slug on the head. She snapped her fingers in front of Junjie's face, and he snapped out of it. "Hello? Slugterra to Junjie." Crystal said, Junjie glared playfully. "Let's go, we need to get back to the others." Crystal said, Junjie nodded, and they ran back to the others.

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"We know we saw, he's working with The Goon." Trixie's voice rang out, Crystal and Junjie finally got back. "Who has escaped with the Water Elemental." Junjie said he helped Eli up. "Then we gotta get to the next one first." Eli said, holding up the Enigmo. "Ready to open that map?" Eli asked the slug, which squeaked in joy. "Eh, Pronto volunteers himself to fire the Enigmo. Eheh, no need to get slugged if you can avoid it eh?" Pronto said. "Eh, Junjie and Crystal, what happened back there guys? You do realize ya' bailed and left Eli right?" Kord asked. "The Goon was escaping with the elemental. I trusted Eli, and Lucy could handle themselves. Which they did." Junjie said. "I'm ready, let's do this." Eli said Pronto pointed his blaster at Eli. "Wait, what if this is how Blakk is beating us. You said yourself, The Goon can get in your head, what if he's stealing the elemental locations from you?" Trixie said, Junjie was about to speak but Lucy cut in instead. "If he was then how would he know where the air and water elementals were before we even knew they existed." She said, Eli nodded. "Lulu's right Trix, it's more like a scar. A reminder of what he did to me and Junjie." Eli said. "Do it." Eli said, Pronto chuckled. "Better you than me." Then he fired the Enigmo, and Will Shane's hologram appeared. "Eli, if you're listening to this, it's time to unlock the next of the five." The hologram said. "So Blakk has Air and water, which leaves us with, Earth, Fire, and Energy. Locate Earth Elemental." Eli said. "Done." A big map showed up. "Which were the only teammates of mine that I ever brought to the surface to see you." Eli thought for a moment. "What about your dad's tracker, Tom Poor." Trixie said, Anne lit up like a light, at the mention of the last name. "I don't know, dad never brought anyone home," Burpy jumped onto Eli's shoulder. "Unless, it's your slugs right? You always said, they were a slinger's teammate more than anyone." Eli said. "Well done." The hologram said, and it showed a picture of Quartermain Cavern. "Hey, that's Quartermain Cavern." Kord said. "Well then that makes this simple, I know quite a few shortcuts that can take us there quickly." Pronto said. "Then what are we standing here for, let's go." Anne said. "Just a sec guys." Eli tried talking to the hologram of his father, but it obviously didn't work. "All I can tell you is, trust your instincts. You'll figure it out Eli, I promise" The hologram disappeared. "To Quartermain then." Junjie said, Crystal nodded, and everyone headed to Quartermain Cavern.

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Trixie scoffed. "So much for simple." She said, "By ghouling two of the elementals, Blakk and The Goon have ghouled almost half the slugs in slugterra. It's a miracle we haven't seen more damage then we already have. " Eli said, Anne turned to the mud. "So now what?" Anne asked. "I dunno, but I hope the other caverns are better than this place." Kord said. "Eh, so… What do we do?" Pronto asked. Eli smirked, "Only one thing to do, close your eyes, hold your nose." Eli and Lucy spoke in usion. "And jump!" They jumped in at the same time. "That, is considered a plan? Jump?" Junjie asked, Crystal facepalmed. "Of course it is. He's a teenager, he's weird, and it's the same with my sister." Crystal said, murmuring the last part. Kord jumped in the mud river followed by Trixie. "Teens…" Crystal grumbled, Junjie chuckled and looked at her. "Yet you also look like a teen." Junjie said Crystal rolled her eyes. "I'm thirty-two, shut the hell up." She said. Pronto spoke. "Eh, surely there must be another way, that involves getting a bit less mud on my, luxurious molinoid coat." He said. "Actually, friend Pronto. There is." Junjie said, Pronto chuckled. Junjie fired his geoshard, and it made a board, made of crystals obviously. Pronto and Anne copied him, Crystal fired Amethyst, but instead for the first time, she went to where someone could ride on her. "Or that works too." Crystal said, hopping on Amethyst's back. They caught up with the rest of the gang. "Calabalouga!" Pronto shouted. "All it takes is your geoshard slug, and a fair degree of balance." Junjie said. "You heard him guys, fire geoshards." Eli said, they all fired their geoshards, and got on the platforms. Pronto started getting cocky, and made everyone except Junjie fall into the mud, Junjie looked up. "The Earth elemental." He said. "We did it." Eli said. "Nice!" Trixie said, Junjie fired a slug, and started using slugfu. "Easy now, I've got you little lord." Junjie whispered. Crystal looked at him and blushed, then snapped out of it when she remembered what would happen next. Trixie's slug knocked Junjie's off course, Crystal told Amethyst to speed up, she went underneath the ledge the Earth elemental was on she laid down on her back and caught him. "You're safe now Little Lord, " Crystal said, "Amethyst slug shield." She said Amethyst made a hollowed out sphere, Crystal grabbed it and made a clean cut through the middle. "Here hop in." She said, the elemental jumped in. "I need to keep you safe." She said, she put the other half on top turning it into a protective shield, just for the earth elemental. "Seal it up, Amethyst." She said Amethyst quickly sealed it. "Oh no! Look out." Trixie yelled. "Brace for impact!" Kord yelled. "Hang on guys!" Eli pulled out his blaster, and shot a Hop Rock, and busted a huge hole into the wall, Amethyst started flying straight down which Crystal didn't expect, so she fell off, Amethyst landed and de-transformed, Crystal gripped the ball in her hand, she kicked her legs and she swam up with difficulties, once she reached the surface of the mud she nearly fainted. Junjie grabbed her and pulled her out of the mud, she started coughing. "Are you okay?" Junjie asked, Crystal nodded. "What about the Earth elemental?" Junjie asked, Crystal held the ball in front of her and broke it and the Earth elemental was perfectly fine. "Thank you, Crystal." Junjie said. "Well it wasn't easy but at least we got him." Eli said. "We would have had him sooner, if your slug hadn't knocked mine off course." Junjie said, looking at Trixie. "Off course? Your slug missed the elemental!" She said, "I was bringing it around so I could push the elemental towards me. I was in complete control of my slug! That is a basic part of my training." He said. "It's- so… you're saying it was all under control?" She asked. "Yes." Junjie said, getting adjicaited. "Did you get water in your ears? That was literally what he just said." Crystal said, Trixie opened her mouth to retort. "You gotta admit Trix, that slugfu stuff is, pretty cool." Kord said. "Eh, not to be a bummer, but I don't think those webs are going to hold much longer." Pronto said. "I don't know what we've got that can get us through a million tons of mud!" Kord said, Crystal heard a chirp by her shoulder she saw the earth elemental, ready for action. "I think the Earth elemental has an idea." Crystal said. "That is unadvisable, it would be more prudent not to use the new slug, until you have had the time to properly train it." Junjie said. "Does it look like we really have a choice?" Crystal said, the Earth elemental hopped in her blaster. She fired the Earth elemental and it turned all the mud solid, and that included the mud on everyone. "Oh floppers." Eli said, the Earth elemental. Landed and whatever was on them came off like it was dust. "Yes!" Trixie shouted, everyone cheered, Crystal held her hand up, Junjie. High. Fived. Her. Crystal jumped in momentary happiness. "Now let's just get out of here Blakk and The Goon are already headed to the next elemental." He said firing the Earth elemental, everyone fired slugs to make an exit.

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"I'm just sayin' because of Junjie, we were that close to losing the Earth elemental." Kord said, Crystal glared, and crossed her arms. "It's not his fault or anything." Trixie said. "He's just used to going solo. He hasn't had experience with being in a team." Crystal said. "Okay gang, we have the coordinates, we're heading for Quietlong Cavern." Eli said. "Ugh, good. Maybe Redhook can help me with this thing." Kord said. "Uh, what is that?" Eli asked. "Well, I noticed the Earth elemental gives off a unique energy signature. So I'm thinking if the others have similar properties. I might be able to calibrate our blasters, to pick up on it. Maybe." He said, he scanned, the slugs freaked out. "Woah, easy guys, I'm just scanning, yeah see somethings wrong. I keep reading two elementals in Eli's backpack." Kord said. "I would try reversing the polarity if I were you." Junjie said, as Crystal got on the back of his mecha. "Yeah, I tried that, I don't know, probably the batteries. I'll charge it as we ride." Kord said, everyone got on their mecha's and started them up. "Alright, we're moving out!" Eli said, Everyone headed for Quietlong Cavern. 'Did he reference transformers, or was that an accident.' Crystal thought, the mecha jumped over something making Crystal hold onto Junjie tighter. Junjie looked back for a moment and saw Crystal with her eyes shut tight. He chuckled. "Sh-Shut up!" Crystal said, getting a bit flustered with embarrassment, Junjie slirked. 'Cute…' He thought he blushed a little, but forced it down, and tried to focus on the path in front of them.